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BIBLE STUDENT'S MANUAL 



CHRONOLOGY AND PROPHECY. 



SELECTED FROM THE 



WORKS OF WILLIAM MILLER; 



WITH A 



CHRONOLOGICAL CHART, 



RECENTLY PREPARED BY HIM. 

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BY JOSHUA V. HIMES. 



BOSTON: 
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204 H-anover Street. 



Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by Joshua 
V. Himes, in the Clerk's Office of the District 
Court of Massachusetts. 



THE BIBLE STUDENT'S MANUAL. 

This little manual and note-book is designed to 
aid the common people in obtaining a right under- 
standing of the Holy Scriptures ; particularly to 
aid them in the study of chronology and prophecy. 

The articles are chiefly selected from " Miller's 
Views," a work recently published. They are 
put in this convenient form, with a note-book, for 
the special benefit of those who attend Mr. Mil- 
ler's lectures. Here they have his principles of 
interpretation, dictionary of prophetic figures, and 
his chronology, with a chart of all his lectures on 
the prophetic periods. A note-book is connected 
with it for the critical student to take notes while 
hearing the lectures, for future reference. 

We have added an extract from " Furguson's 
Astronomy," on the seventy weeks, and the true 
christian era. 

We now commend this little volume to the 
faithful in Christ Jesus — to the students of pro- 
phecy — to those who are denying themselves of 
ungodliness and worldly lust, and are living 
soberly and godly in this present evil world; 
looking foe. that elessed hope" and glorious 
appearing of the great god and our savior 
Jesus Christ. 

JOSHUA V. HIMES. 
Boston, March 1, 1841. 



RULES OF INTERPRETATION. 


In studying the Bible, I have found the following 
rules to be of great service to myself, and now give 
them to the public by special request. Every rule 
should be well studied, in connexion with the scripture 
references, if the Bible student would be at all benefited 
by them. 


RULES. 


PROOFS. 


I. Every word must have its 
proper bearing on the subject 
presented in the Bible. 


lviaii. v. 10. 


II. All scripture is necessary, 
and may be understood by a dili- 
gent application and study. 


2 Tim. iii. 15,16, 17. 


III. Nothing revealed in the 
scripture can.or will be hid from 
those who ask in faith, not wa- 
vering. 


Deut. xxix. 29. Matt, 
x. 26, 27. 1 Cor. ii. 10. 
Phil. iii. 15. Isa. xlv. 
11. Matt. xxi. 22. 
John xiv. 13, 14. xv. 
7. James i. 5, 6. 1 
John v. 13, 14, 15. 


IV. To understand doctrine, 
bring all the scriptures together 
on the subject you wish to know ; 
then let every word have its 
proper influence, and if you can 
form your theory without a con- 
tradiction, you cannot be in an 
error. 


Tsa. xxviii. 7 — 29. 
xxxv. 8. Prov. xix. 
27. Luke xxiv. 27, 44, 
45. Rom. xvi. 26. 
James v. 19. 2 Pet. i. 
19, 20. 


Y. Scripture must be its own 
expositor, since it is a rule of it- 
self. If I depend on a teacher 
to expound it to me, and he 
should guess at its meaning, or 
desire to have it so on account 
of his sectarian creed, or to be 


Ps. xix. 7, 8, 9, 10, 
11. cxix. 97, 98, 99, 
100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 
105. Matt, xxiii. 8, 9. 
10. 1 Cor. ii. 12, 13, 
14,15,16. Eze. xxxiv. 
18, 19. Luke xi. 52. 
Mai. ii. 7, 8. 



4 RULES OF INTERPRETATION. 


RULES. 


I PROOFS. 


thought wise, then his guessing, 1 
desire, creed or wisdom is my rule, 
not the Bible. 


VI. God has revealed things 
to come, by visions, in figures 

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the same things are oftentime 
revealed again and again, by 
different visions, or in different 
figures, and parables. If you 
wish to understand them, you 
must combine them all in one. 


Ps. lxxxix. 19. Hos. 
xii. 10. Hab. ii. 2. 
Acts ii. 17. 1 Cor. x. 
6. Heb. ix.9,24. Ps. 
Ixxviii. 2. Matt. xiii. 
13,34. Gen. xli. 1—32. 
Dan. ii. vii. and viii. 
Acts x. 9—16. 


VII. Visions are always men- 
tioned as such. 


2 Cor. xii. 1. 


VIII. Figures always have a 
figurative meaning, and are used 
much in prophecy, to represent 
future things, times and events ; 
such as mountains, meaning gov- 
ernments ; leasts-, meaning king- 
doms. 

Waters, meaning people. 
Lamp, meaning Word of God, 
Day', meaning year. 


Dan. ii. 35, 44. vii. 
8, 17. 
Rev. xvii. 1, 15. 
Ps. cxix. 105. 
Ezek. iv. 6. 


IX. Parables are used as com- 
parisons to illustrate subjects, 
and must be explained in the 
same way as figures by the sub- 
ject and Bible. Mark iv. 13. 
Spp pxulanation of fhp tpn. vir- 
gins, Miller's Lectures, No. xvi. 


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X. Figures sometimes have 
two or more different significa- 
tions, as day is used in a figura- 
tive sense to represent three dif- 
ferent periods of time. 

1. Indefinite. 


Eccles. vii. 14. 



RULES OF INTERPRETATION. 5 



RULES. 


PROOFS. 


2. Definite, a day for a year. 

3. Day for a thousand years. 

If you put on the right con- 
struction it will harmonize with 
the Bible and make good sense, 
otherwise it will not. 


Ezek. iv. 6. 
2 Pet. iii. 8. 


XI. How to know when a 
word is used figuratively. If it 
makes good sense as it stands, 
and does no violence to the sim- 
ple laws of nature, then it must 
be understood literally, if not, 
figuratively. 


Rev. xii. 1. 2. xvii. 
3—7. 


XII. To learn the true mean- 
ing of figures, trace your figura- 
tive word through your Bible, 
and where you find it explained, 
put it on your figure, and if it 
makes good sense you need look 
no further, if not, look again. 




XIII. To know whether we 
have the true historical event 
for the fulfilment of a prophecy. 
If you find every word of the 
prophecy (after the figures are 
understood) is literally fulfilled, 
then you may know that your 
history is the true event. But 
if one word lacks a fulfilment, 
then you must look for another 
event, or wait its future devel- 
opment. For God takes care 
that history and prophecy doth 
agree, so that the true believing 
children of God may never be 
ashamed. 




Pa. xxii. 5. Isa. xlv. 
17, 18, 19. 1 Pet. ii. 6. 
Rev. xvii. 17. Acts iii. 
18. 


XIV. The most important rule of all is, that you 
must have faith. It must be a faith that requires 



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a sacrifice, and, if tried, would give up the dearest 
object on earth, the world and all its desires, char- 
acter, living, occupation, friends, home, comforts, 
and worldly honors. If any of these should hinder 
our believing any part of God's word, it would 
show our faith to be vain. Nor can we ever be- 
lieve so long as one of these motives lies lurking 
in our hearts. We must believe that God will 
never forfeit his word. And we can have confi- 
dence that he that takes notice of the sparrow, and 
numbers the hairs of our head, will guard the 
translation of his own word, and throw a barrier 
around it, and prevent those who sincerely trust in 
God, and put implicit confidence in his word, from 
erring far from the truth, though they may not un- 
derstand Hebrew or Greek. 

These are some of the most important rules 
which I find the word of God warrants me to adopt 
and follow, in order for system and regularity. 
And if I am not greatly deceived, in so doing, I 
have found the Bible, as a whole, one of the most 
simple, plain, and intelligible books ever written, 
containing proof in itself of its divine origin, and 
full of all knowledge that our hearts could wish to 
know or enjoy. I have found it a treasure which 
the world cannot purchase. It gives a calm peace 
in believing, and a firm hope in the future. It 
sustains the mind in adversity, and teaches us to be 
humble in prosperity. It prepares us to love and 
do good to others, and to realize the value of the 
soul. It makes us bold and valiant for the truth, 
and nerves the arm to oppose error. It gives us a 
powerful weapon to break down Infidelity, and 
makes known the only antidote for sin. It in- 
structs us how death will be conquered, and how 
the bonds of the tomb must be broken. It tells us 
of future events, and shows the preparation neces- 
sary to meet them. It gives us an opportunity to 
hold conversation with the King of kings, and re- 
veals the best code of laws ever enacted. 



RULES OF INTERPRETATION. 7 

This is but a faint view of its value ; yet how 
many perishing souls treat it with neglect, or, what 
is equally as bad, treat it as a hidden mystery 
which cannot be known. Oh, my dear reader, 
make it your chief study. Try it well, and you 
will find it to be all I have said. Yes, like the 
Queen of Sheba, you will say the half was not told 
you. 

The divinity taught in our schools is always 
founded on some sectarian creed. It may do to 
take a blank mind and impress it with this kind, 
but it will always end in bigotry. A free mind 
will never be satisfied with the views of others. 
Were I a teacher of youth in divinity, I would first 
learn their capacity and mind. If these were 
good, I would make them study the Bible for them- 
selves, and send them out free to do the world 
good. But if they had no mind, I would stamp 
them with another's mind, write bigot on their 
forehead, and send them out as slaves ! 



EXPLANATION OF 
PROPHETIC FIGURES. 



Adultery, Idolatry. Jer. iii. 9. Eze. xxiii. 37. 

Air. Spirit of piety — false theories. Eph. ii. 2. 

Altar. Christ. Ps. xliii. 4. Heb. xiii. 10. 

Amon. A people, or son of my people. 

Ancient of Days. God. Dan. vii. 9. 

Angel. Christ, or messenger of God. Ex. xxiii. 

20. Rev. i, 1. xx. 1. 
Are. Christ. Ps. exxxii. 8. Num. x. 33. 
Ascension into Heaven. Dignity and honor. John 

vi. 62. Isa. xiv. 13, 14. Rev. xi. 12. 
Asleep. Death. Acts vii. 60. 2 Pet. iii. 4. 1 

Cor. xv. 18. 

Awake. Resurrection. Job xiv. 12. Ps. xvii. 15. 

John xi. 11. Dan. xii. 2. 
Babylon. Confusion, mixture, worldly. 
Balaam. Their destruction without the prophet. 
Balance. Justice. Daniel v. 27. Worldly mind. 

Rev. vi. 5. 

Banner. Gospel ensign, love. Cant. ii. 4. 
Beasts. Kingdoms, or powers. Dan. vii. 3, 17. 

Rev. iv. 6— S. v. 8, 9. 
Beheld or Beholding. Joy, or grief, according to 

the circumstances. Ps. cxix. 158. Rev. xi. 12. 
Bed. A place of confinement. Rev. ii. 22. Isa. 

xxviii. 20. 

Belly. Practical part. Rom. xvi. 18. Job xv. 35. 

Rev. x. 9, 10. Luke xv. 16. John vii. 38. 
Bind. To judge and condemn. Matt. xiii. 30. xxii. 

13. 

Bird or Fowl. Warriors and conquerors. Isa. 
xlvi. 11. Jer. xii. 9. Rev. xviii. 2. 



EXPLANATION OF 



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Btrth. Deliverance from heavy judgments. Isa« 

xxxvii. 3—20. lxvi. 9. 
Black. Error, cruelty, death. Jer. iv. 28. Rev. vi. 

5—12. 

Blasphemy. Idolatry. Isa. lxv. 7. Eze. xx. 24 — 27. 

Bless or Blessed. Saved from sin and from death. 
Ps. xxviii. 9. xxxvii. 22. Isa. lxi. 9. Rev. xiv. 13. 

Blind. Those who are wilfully ignorant and preju- 
diced. Isa.lvi.10— 12. xlii.18— 20. Matt.xxtti. 
16. xv. 14. 2 Cor. iv. 4. 1 John ii. 11. 

Blind. Self-righteousness. Matt. xv. 14. xxiii. 16 
to 26. 

Blood. Death, war and slaughter. Matt, xxvii. 
24. Isa. xv. 9. xxxiv. 3. Rev. vi. 10. viii. 8. xi. 
6. xiv. 20. 

Blowing of the Wind. The Holy Spirit doing its 
office in regeneration. Cant. iv. 16. John iii. 8. 
Rev. vii. 1. 

Book. G-od's designs, knowledge and counsel. Ps. 
cxxxix. 16. Is. xxxiv. 16. Reading, is to make 
his designs known. To Seal, is to shut up, or 
make sure. 

Bow and Arrows. Victory over enemies. Isa. xli. 

2. Rev. vi.,2. 
Brass, is used for impudence and sin, warlike. Isa. 

xlviii. 4. Jer. vi. 28. Mic. iv. 13. 
Branch. A descendant, or offspring. Isa. xi. 1. Jer. 

xxiii. 5. Dan. xi. 7. 
Bread. Doctrine of life. Amos viii. 11. Matt. iv. 4. 
Breast-plate. Defence, or armor. Isa. lix. 17. 

Rev. ix. 9. 

Breasts. Consolation, word of God. Isa. lxvi. 11. 
Bridle. The restraining power of God. Isa. xxx. 
28. 

Brimstone. Curse of God. Isa. xxx. 33. xi. 4. 

Burning with Fire, is to destroy, or change their 
state completely. Mai. iv. 1 — 3. 2 Pet. iii. 10, 
11. Rev. xx. 9. 

Buy, or Buying, is used as an act of giving or re- 
ceiving religious instruction. Isa. Iv. L Rev. 
iii. 18. xiii. 17. 



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PROPHETIC FIGURES. 



Candle, is light. Jer. xxv. 10. Matt. v. 15. Luke 
xi. 36. xv. 8. 

Candlesticks. The means of light; as the kingdom 
of Christ, the two witnesses, and seven churches,, 
are called candlesticks. Dan. v. 5. Zech. it. 2, 
11. Rev. ii. 5. xi. 4. 

Carmel. The vineyard of God. Mich. vii. 14. 

Chain, signifies the laws of God ; or man, in pro- 
phecy. Ps. cxlix. 8. Acts xxviii. 20. Jude 6. 

Chittem. Those that bruise. Dan. xi. 30. 

City of God. New Jerusalem. Heb. xii. 22. Rev. 

iii. 12. 

City of Nations. Antichrist, or Babylon. Rev. xvi. 
19. xvii. 18. 
The streets of the great city are the ten kings. 
Rev. xi. 8, 13. 

Cloud, or to ride on a Cloud, is an emblem of 
power and great glory. Matt. xxiv. 30. Some- 
times it means heavy judgments, as in Joel ii. 2. 
Zeph. i. 15. 

Crown. Dignity and honor. Prov. xvi. 31. Isa. 

xxviii. 1 — 5. lxii. 3. 
Cry or Cried. To be sensible of want. Prayers and 

petitions for relief; or forerunner of war. 2 Kings 

iv. 40. Ps. xxx. 2—8. Rev. xiv. 18. 
Darkness. Ignorance, unbelief, and every evil work> 

confusion and horror. Prov. iv. 19. Isa. lx. 2. 
Eph. v. 11. 

Day, is one year — revolution of the earth in its 

orbit. Num. xiv. 34. Eze. iv. 5,6. Dan. ix. 24. 
Day of the Lord. Judgment day, or 1000 years. 1 

Thes. v. 2. 2 Pet. iii. 8—10. Rev. xx. 4—7. 
Death. Separation from body, from holiness, from 

God; inactive, separate from former state. This 

is the proper sense. 
Desert, or Wilderness. Paganism, or away from 

the force of the laws of the Romish Church. Isa. 

xl. 3. Eze. xlvii. 8. Rev. xii. 6. 
Devil. Roman government ; pagan and papal, when 

used as a symbol. Rev. ii. 10. xii. 9. xx. 2. 
Dew and Rain, signify the pouring out of the Spirit 



EXPLANATION OF 



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and heavenly blessing. Ps. cxxxiii. 3. Prov. xix. 

12. Hosea xiv. 5. 
Dogs. Wicked men and teachers. Isa. lvi. 10. 

Rev. xxii. 15. Phil, iii. 2. Ps. lix.- 6— 14. 
Dragon. Rome pagan. Rev. xvii. 8. Afterwards 

papal. Persecuting governments. 
Drunkenness. Intoxicated with worldly riches, plea- 
sures and honors. Isa. xxix. 9. Matt. xxiv. 49. 

Luke xxi. 34. 
Eagle, denotes a people hid, or out of sight. Rev. 

xii. 14, iv. 7. Matt. xxiv. 28. 
Earth. The Roman kingdom. Rev. xiii. 12, and 

xix. 2. 

Earthquake. Revolutions. Hag. ii. 21, 22. Rev. 

vi. 12. xvi. 18. 
Eat. To consume or destrov. Rev. xvii. 16. James 

v. 3. Rev. xix. 18. 
Elders, twenty-four, denote the whole priesthood, 

taken from twenty-four courses. 1 Chron. xxiv. 
Fire, is used to denote destruction, and justice of 

God. Ps.lxviii. 2. Heb. xii. 29. Word of God. 

Jer. v. 14. 

Flesh. Riches and honors of the world. 2 Pet. ii. 

10—18. 1 John ii. 15, 16. Rev. xix. 18. 
Flood. Great numbers. Isa. lix. 19. Dan. ix. 26. 

Rev. xii. 15, 16. 
Forehead. Public profession, or character. Jer. iii. 

3. Eze. ix. 4. Rev. vii. 3. xiii. 16. 
Frogs. The symbolic meaning of frogs (say some) 

is flatterers or impostors. See Rev. xvi. 13. 
Garments, denote the character, as white denotes 

purity or righteousness ; rags, filthy ; sackcloth, 

mourning. Dan. vii. 9. Zee. iii. 3, 4. Rev. xvi. 15. 
God, when used as a symbol, denotes a prince, 

ruler, or magistrate. 1 Cor. viii. 5. Gal. iv. 8. 
Grave. To hide in secret ; put out of memory. Job 

xiv. 13. 

Grass, means people, as green the righteous, dry 
or stubble the wicked. Isa. xl. 6, 7, 8. 1 Pet. i. 
24. Rev. viii. 7. ix. 4. 

Hail, denotes wars, slaughter and desolation, by 



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PROPHETIC FIGURES* 



some Northern government. Isa. xxviii. 2, 17. 

xxx. 30, 32. Rev. viii. 7. 
Hand. Symbol of action and labor. Isa. x. 13. 

xlviii. 13. Rev. xx. 1. Dan. viii. 25. 
Harlot. An idolatrous community, or church. Isa. 

i. 21. Jer. iii. 1 — 8. Rev. xvii. 5. 
Harvest. The gathering of men to their final des- 
tiny. Matt. xiii. 39. Jer. li. 33. Joel iii. 13. 
Head. The supreme power of the object. Dan. ii. 

38. Eph. i. 22. Rev. xix. 12. 
Heat. Anger, calamity. Deut. xxix. 24. Ezek. iii. 

14. Rev. xvi. 9. 
Heaven. Government of God with his people. 

Deut. xi. 21. Isa. xlix. 13. Matt=xvi. 19. xxv. 

1, 14. Dan. vii. 18, 22. 
Hill. Kingdoms. ■_ Isa. ii. 2. v. 25. Mic. vi. 1, 2, 
Horn. Kings. Dan. vii. 24. viii. 20, 21. Rev. 

xvii. 12, 16. 

Horse. War and conquest. Prov. xxi. 31. Jer. 
viii. 6. 

White, victory. Rev. vi. 2. xix. 11. 

Black, distress and calamity. Rev. vi. 5. 

Red, war and hostility. Rev. vi. 4. 

Pale, death and destruction. Rev. vi. 8. 
Iron. Strength. Dan. ii. 33—41. Rev. ii. 27. 
Israel. Christian church. Isa. xlv. 4 — 25. Gah 
vi. 16. 

Islands. Small governments in Roman states. 
Ezek. xxvi. 15, 16. Zeph. ii. 11. Rev. x. 20. 
vi. 14. 

Jerusalem. The church of God. Isa. Iii. 9. Gal. 
iv. 26. 

Jezebel. Antichrist. 1 Kings xviii. 19. Rev. ii. 20. 
Killing. Depriving of power. Ps. xliv. 22. Rom. 

viii. 36. Rev. vi. 4. xi. 7. 
King. Forms of government or power. Dan. viii. 

23. Rev. ix. 11. xvii. 10. 
Lamb. Messiah. Isa. xvi. 1. John i. 29. Rev. v. 12. 
Lamp. Word of God or Mahometan Bible. Ps. cxix. 

105. Rev. viii. 10. 



EXPLANATION OF 



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Leopard. A cruel, fierce, and quick conqueror* 

Hosea xiii. 7. Hab. i. 8. Rev. xiii. 2. 
Lion. Valiant, strong, courageous. Prov. xxviii. i. 

xxx. 30. Rev. x. 3. xiii. 2. . 
Locusts. Great armies. Isa. xxxiii. 4. Nah. iii. 

15, 17. Rev. ix. 3—7. 
Mark. To profess allegiance. The Roman soldiers 

had marked foreheads and hands. Ezek. ix. 4. 

Rev. xiii. 16, 17. xiv. 9, 11. 
Measure. Completed, finished. Ps. xxxix. 4. Jer. 

li. 13. Matt, xxiii. 32. Rev. xi. 1. 
Merchants. Professed ministers of Christ. Isa. 

xxiii. 8, 18. Jer. xiv. 18. Rev. xviii. 11, 12, 23. 
Moon. Gospel. Isa. xxx. 26. Rev. xii. 1. Or church. 

Cant. vi. 10. 

Mountain. Governments. Isa. ii. 2. Dan. ii. 35. 
Mountain, holy. The gospel kingdom. Isa. xi. 9. 

The seat of Antichrist. Ezek. xxviii. 14. Dan. 

xi. 45. 

Morning. Resurrection of the just. Ps. xlix. 14. 
Mouth. Commands, or laws. Dan. vii. 8. Rev. xiii. 

5. xvi. 13. 1 Thesv ii. 8. 
Naked. Shame and disgrace. Mic. i. 8, 11. Rev. 

iii. 18. xvi. 15. xvii. 16. 
Night. Moral darkness or wickedness. Isa. xxi. 8. 

Rom. xiii. 12. 1 Thes. v. 5. Rev. xxi. 25. 
Number or Numbered. Finished — end. Ps. xc. 12. 

Dan. v. 26. Ezek. iv. 4—6. Rev. xiii. 17, 18. 
Oil. Faith. Matt. xxv. 8. Cant. i. 3. Heh. iv. 2. 
Ox, denotes a people for slaughter. Prov. vii. 22. 

Jer. xi. 19. Num. xxiii. 1. 
Rain. Reformation, grace, refreshing. Deut. xxxii. 

2. Hosea vi. 3. James v. 7. 

Red. Persecuting, bloody. Rev. vi. 4. xii. 3. 
Rivers. People living on the rivers, mentioned Isa. 

viii. 7. Rev. viii. 10. xvi. 4. 
Rod of Iron. Power of Christ. Ps. ii. 9. Isa. xL 1. 

Rev. ii. 27. 
Scarlet. Bloody, cruel. Rev. xvii. 3, 4. 
Sea. A large body of people. Isa. lvii. 20. Dan. vii. 

3. Rev. vii. 2, 3. 

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Shield and Buckler. Ps. xci. 4. 

Stars. Ministers in the church, or rulers in the 

world. Rev. xii. 1. Dan. viii. 10. xii. 3. Jude 13. 
Sun. As in the natural, so in the moral world, source 

of all light, Christ or his word. Gen. xxxvii. 9. 

Ps. lxxxiv. 11. Mai. iv. 2. 
Sword. Slaughter. Jer. xv. 3. Ezek. xxi. 28. 
Sword, two-edged. Word of God. Ps. cxlix. 6. 

Heb. iv. 12. Rev. i. 16. ii. 12. 
Tail. Subordinate officers or provinces. Isa. ix. 14, 

15. Rev. xii. 4. 
Teeth, large iron. Strong devouring enemy. 

Dan. vii. 7, 19. Rev. ix. 8. 
Temple. The church professedly of Christ or Anti- 
christ. Mai. iii. 1. 2 Cor. vi. 16. Rev. vii. 15. 
Thunder. Sudden dispersion of armies or king- 
doms. ISam.ii.lO. Isa. xxix. 5, 6. Ps.xviii. 13. 
Tree of Life. Jesus Christ. Rev. ii. 7. xxii. 2. 
Vine. A class of people, as wicked or righteous. 

Hosea x. 1. Rev. xiv. 18. 
Voices. Many people engaged in the same cry to be 

eased of burdens, or rejoicing. Luke xxiii. 23. 

Rev. viii. 5. xi. 15, 19. 
Walk with God, is to live with and be in com- 
munion with him. 2 Cor. vi, 16. Rev. iii. 4. 
Waters. Flesh, or people. .Num. xxiv. 7. Jsa. 

xlviii. 1. viii. 7. John v. 8. Rev. xvii. 15. 
Whirlwind. Heavy judgments of God. Ps. lviii. 9. 

Prov. i. 27. Isa. Ixvi. 15. 
Wilderness. Outlawed from the great city. Deut. 

xxxii. 10. Jer. xii. 10. Rev. xii. 6. 
Wind. Doctrine, good and bad. Cant. iv. 16. Isa. 

xxvi. 18. Eph. iv. 14. 
Wine, is consolation, and anger, and justice. Cant. 

v. 1. Isa. Iv. 1. Rev. xvi. 19. xvii. 2. 
Wings. Protection, defence. Exod. xix. 4. Ps. xvii. 

8. xxxvi. 7. Rev. ix. 9. xii. 14. 
Witness. Christ, prophets and apostles. Isa. xliii. 

10. Acts i. 8, 22. Rev. i. 5. iii. 14. xx. 4. 
Witnesses, two. Two testaments, scriptures, figured 



EXPLANATION OF PROPHETIC FIGURES. 15 



by the two cherubims. Rev. xi. 3, 4. Zach. iv. 

3—6. John v. 39. 1 John v. 9. Exod. xxxi. 18. 
Woman. The true church and anti-christian church. 

Isa. liv. 6. Jer. vi. 2. Rev. xii. 1. xvii. 3, 7. 
Wood. People. Jer. v. 14. 
Words of God. Fire. Jer. v. 14. 
Wrath, day of. Judgment day. Job xxi. 30. Ps. 

ex. 5. Zeph. i. 15. Rom. ii. 5. Rev. vi. 17. 



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EXTRACT FROM FERGUSON'S ASTRONOMY. 

The vulgar era of Christ's birth was never set- 
tled till the year 527, when Dionysius Exigus, a Ro- 
man abbot, fixed it to the end of the 4713th year of 
the Julian period, which was four years too late. For 
our Savior was born before the death of Herod, who 
sought to kill him as soon as he heard of his birth ; 
and, according to the testimony of Josephus, (B. 
xvii. ch. 8,) there was an eclipse of the moon in the 
time of Herod's last illness ; which eclipse appears, 
by our astronomical tables, to have been in the year 
of the Julian period 4710, March 13th, at three hours 
past midnight, at Jerusalem. Now, as our Savior 
must have been born some months before Herod's 
death, since in the interval he was carried into 
Egypt, the latest time in which we can fix the true 
era of his birth, is about the end of the 4709th year 
of the Julian period. There is a remarkable prophe- 
cy delivered to us in the ninth chapter of the book 
of Daniel, which, from a certain epoch, fixes the time 
of restoring the state of the Jews, and of building 
the walls of Jerusalem, the coming of Messiah, his 
death, and the destruction of Jerusalem. But some 
parts of this prophecy (ver. 25) are so injudiciously 
pointed in our English translation of the Bible, that, 
if they be read according to those stops of pointing, 
they are quite unintelligible. But the learned Dr, 



APPENDIX. 



21 



Prideaux, by altering these stops, makes the sense 
plain ; and, as he seems to me to have explained 
the whole of it better than any other author I have 
read on the subject, I shall set down the whole of 
the prophecy according as he has pointed it, to show 
in what manner he has divided it into four different 
parts. 

Ver. 24. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy 
people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the trans- 
gression, and to make an end of sin, and to make 
reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting 
righteousness, and to seal up the vision and the 
prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy. Ver. 25. 
Know therefore and understand, that from the going 
forth of the commandment to restore and build Jeru- 
salem unto the Messiah, the prince, shall be seven 
weeks and threescore and two weeks ; the street shall 
be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 
Ver. 26. And after threescore and two weeks shall 
Messiah be cut off, but not for himself; and the peo- 
ple of the prince that shall come shall destroy the 
city and sanctuary, and the end thereof shall be with 
a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are 
determined. Ver. 27. And he shall confirm the cove- 
nant with many for one week, and in the midst # of 
the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation 
to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations 
he shall make it desolate even until the consumma- 
tion, and that determined shall be poured upon the 
desolate. 

This commandment was given to Ezra by Arta- 
xerxes Longimanus, in the seven th year of that king's 
reign, (Ezra vii. ver. 11 — 26.) Ezra began the work, 
which was afterward accomplished by Nehemiah, 
in which they meet with great opposition and trouble 
from the Samaritans and others, during the first 
seven weeks, or 49 years. 

From this accomplishment till the time when 
Christ's messenger, John the Baptist, began to 

*It is said this should be rendered last half, instead of midst. 



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preach the kingdom of the Messiah, 62 weeks, or 
434 years. 

From thence to the beginning of Christ's public 
ministry, half a week, or three and a half years. 

And from thence to the death of Christ, half a 
week, or three and a half years ; in which half week 
he preached and confirmed the covenant of the Gos- 
pel with many. 

In all, from the going forth of the commandment, 
till the death of Christ, 70 weeks, or 490 years. 

And, lastly, in a very striking manner, the prophe- 
cy foretells what should come to pass after the expi- 
ration of the 70 weeks ; namely, the destruction of 
the city and sanctuary by the people of the prince 
that was to come ; which were the Roman armies, 
under the command of Titus their prince, who came 
upon Jerusalem as a torrent, with their idolatrous 
images, which were an abomination to the Jews, 
and under which they marched against them, invaded 
their land, and besieged their holy city, and by a 
calamitous war brought such utter destruction upon 
both, that the Jews have never been able to recover 
themselves, even to this day. 

Now, both by the undoubted canon of Ptolemy, 
and the famous era of Nabonassar, the beginning of 
the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes Longi- 
manus, king of Persia, (who is called Ahasuerus in 
the book of Esther,) is pinned down to the 4256th 
year of the Julian period, in which year he gave 
Ezra the above-mentioned ample commission ; from 
which count 490 years to the death of Christ, and it 
will carry the same to the 4746th year of the Julian 
period. 

Our Saturday is the Jewish Sabbath; and it is 
plain, from St. Mark, ch. xv. ver. 42, and St. Luke, 
ch. xxiii. ver. 54, that Christ was crucified on Friday, 
seeing the crucifixion was on the day next before 
the Jewish Sabbath; and according to St. John, 
ch. xviii. ver. 28, on the day that the passover was 
to be eaten, at least by many of the Jews. 

The Jews reckoned their months by the moon, and 



APPENDIX. 



23 



their years by the apparent revolution of the sun ; 
and they ate the passover on the 14th day of the 
month Nisan, which was the first month of the year, 
reckoning from the first appearance of the new moon, 
which at that time of the year might be on the eve- 
ning of the day next after the change, if the sky was 
clear. So that their 14th day of the month answers 
to our 15th day of the moon, on which she is full. 
Consequently, the passover was always kept on the 
day of full moon. 

And the full moon at which it was kept, was that 
one which happened next after the vernal equinox. 
For Josephus expressly says, (Antiq. B. iii. ch. 10,) 
the passover was kept on the 14th day of the month 
of Nisan, according to the moon, when the sun was 
in Aries. And the sun always enters Aries at the 
instant of the vernal equinox ; which, in our Savior's 
time, fell on the 22d day of March. 

The dispute among chronologers about the year 
of Christ's death, is limited to four or five years at 
most. Eut as we have shown that he was crucified 
on the day of a paschal full moon, and on a Friday, 
all that we have to do, in order to ascertain the year 
of his death, is only to compute in which of those 
years there was a passover full moon on a Friday. 
For the full moons anticipate eleven days every year, 
(12 lunar months being so much short of a solar 
year,) and therefore once in every three years, at 
least, the Jews were obliged to set their passover a 
month farther forward than it fell by the course of 
the moon, on the year next before, in order to keep 
it at the full moon next after the equinox. There- 
fore there could not be two passovers on the same 
day of the week, within the compass of a few neigh- 
boring years. And I find by calculation, the only 
passover full moon that fell on a Friday, for several 
years before or after the disputed year of the cruci- 
fixion, was on the 3d day of April, in the 4746th year 
of the Julian period, which was the 490th year after 
Ezra received the above-mentioned commission from 
Artaxerxes Longimanus, according to Ptolemy's 



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canon, and the year in which the Messiah was to be 
cut off, according to the prophecy, reckoning from 
the going forth of that commission or commandment : 
and this 490th year was the 33d year of our Savior's 
age, reckoning from the vulgar era of his birth ; but 
the 37th, reckoning from the true era thereof. 

And when we reflect on what the Jews told him, 
some time before his death, (John viii. 57,) " Thou 
art not yet fifty years old," we must confess, that it 
should seem much likelier to have been said to a 
person near forty, than to one but just turned of 
thirty. And we may easily suppose, that St. Luke 
expressed himself only in round numbers, when he 
said that Christ was baptized about the 30th year of 
his age, when he began his public ministry ; as our 
Savior himself did, when he said he should lie three 
days and three nights in the grave. 

The 4746th year of the Julian period, which we 
have astronomically proved to be the year of the 
crucifixion, was the 4th of the 202d Olympiad ; in 
which year, Phlegon, a heathen writer, tells us there 
was a most extraordinary eclipse of the sun that 
ever was seen. But I find by calculation, that there 
could be no total eclipse of the sun at Jerusalem, in 
a natural way, in that year. So that what Phlegon 
here calls an eclipse of the sun ; seems to have been 
the great darkness for three hours at the time of our 
Savior's crucifixion, as mentioned by the evangelist; 
a darkness altogether supernatural, as the moon was 
then in the side of the heavens opposite to the sun ; 
and therefore could not possibly darken the sun to 
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